Acropolis of Athens
Athens, Greece
The Acropolis of Athens is the limestone hill above the city crowned by the Parthenon, the marble temple of Athena…
114 tickets & tours
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Best ancient sites in Greece
Greece covers almost every chapter of the ancient Aegean: Minoan palaces on Crete, the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, the classical sanctuaries of Olympia and Epidaurus, the Macedonian capitals of Philip and Alexander, and Roman Athens. The catalogue’s 34 sites cluster in Athens (the Acropolis, the Ancient and Roman Agoras), the Peloponnese (Mycenae, Epidaurus, Corinth, Messene, Olympia), Crete (Knossos, Phaistos, Malia), the north (Vergina, Pella, Dion, Philippi) and the islands: Delos off Mykonos, Akrotiri on Santorini, Lindos on Rhodes.
Athens 4Kos 2Rhodes 2Santorini 2Agios Nikolaos 1Chania 1Corinth 1Delos 1Dion 1Dodoni 1Elefsina 1Epidavros 1Faistos 1Heraklion 1Kavala 1Lindos 1Malia 1Messene 1Milos 1Mykines 1Nemea 1Olympia 1Pella 1Perachora 1Rethymno 1Sparta 1Thessaloniki 1Vergina 1
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Knossos
Heraklion, Greece
Knossos is the largest Minoan palace on Crete, 5 km south of Heraklion, built from about 1900 BC on a hill that had…
111 tickets & tours
Ancient Olympia
Olympia, Greece
Ancient Olympia is the sanctuary of Zeus in the western Peloponnese where the Olympic Games were held every four years…
89 tickets & tours
Mycenae
Mykines, Greece
Mycenae is the hilltop citadel of the Bronze Age kings who dominated Greece around 1350 BC and gave their name to…
57 tickets & tours
Theatre of Epidaurus
Epidavros, Greece
The Theatre of Epidaurus is the best-preserved theatre of ancient Greece, built in the late 4th century BC inside the…
40 tickets & tours
Ancient Corinth
Corinth, Greece
Ancient Corinth is the excavated centre of one of the richest cities of ancient Greece, sacked by Rome in 146 BC and…
39 tickets & tours
Delos
Delos, Greece
Delos is the small island off Mykonos that the Greeks held sacred as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, and its…
35 tickets & tours
Akrotiri
Santorini, Greece
Akrotiri is the Bronze Age town on the south coast of Santorini that the great Theran eruption buried in volcanic ash…
18 tickets & tours
Aigai (Vergina) Royal Tombs
Vergina, Greece
Aigai, at the village of Vergina in northern Greece, was the first capital of the kings of Macedon and the place where…
10 tickets & tours
Pella
Pella, Greece
Pella was the capital of ancient Macedon and the birthplace of Philip II and Alexander the Great, 40 km west of…
8 tickets & tours
Phaistos
Faistos, Greece
Phaistos is the second great Minoan palace of Crete, set on a ridge above the Messara plain 62 km south of Heraklion.
8 tickets & tours
Philippi
Kavala, Greece
Philippi is the ancient city founded by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BC on the Via Egnatia, 15 km north-west of Kavala…
8 tickets & tours
Aptera
Chania, Greece
Aptera is an ancient city-state on a hilltop 13 km east of Chania in western Crete, about 150 metres above Souda Bay.
6 tickets & tours
Ancient Agora of Athens
Athens, Greece
The Ancient Agora of Athens was the civic heart of the classical city, the square below the Acropolis where citizens…
5 tickets & tours
Acropolis of Lindos
Lindos, Greece
The Acropolis of Lindos crowns a sheer rock about 116 metres above the white village of Lindos, on the east coast of…
4 tickets & tours
Ancient Messene
Messene, Greece
Ancient Messene is a Greek city founded in 369 BC by the Theban general Epaminondas below Mount Ithome, 25 km north of…
4 tickets & tours
Acropolis of Rhodes
Rhodes, Greece
The Acropolis of Rhodes is the hilltop sacred quarter of the ancient city, on Monte Smith about 3 km south-west of the…
3 tickets & tours
Ancient Eleusis
Elefsina, Greece
Ancient Eleusis is the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone in the town of Elefsina, about 20 km west of Athens, where…
3 tickets & tours
Ancient Eleutherna
Rethymno, Greece
Ancient Eleutherna is a Greek city-state on a steep ridge below Mount Ida in central Crete, about 25 km south-east of…
3 tickets & tours
Ancient Stadium of Nemea
Nemea, Greece
The Ancient Stadium of Nemea is the race track where the Nemean Games, one of the four great athletic festivals of…
3 tickets & tours
Ancient Sparta
Sparta, Greece
Ancient Sparta is the archaeological park on the low acropolis hill at the north edge of the modern town, in the…
2 tickets & tours
Ancient Kamiros
Rhodes, Greece
Kamiros is the ruined Doric city on the west coast of Rhodes, laid out on three terraces down a hillside facing the…
1 ticket or tour
Ancient Theatre of Milos
Milos, Greece
The ancient theatre of Milos is a Greek theatre rebuilt in marble in Roman times, set on a hillside below the village…
1 ticket or tour
Asklepieion of Kos
Kos, Greece
The Asklepieion of Kos is the ancient healing sanctuary of the god Asclepius, set on three terraces on a wooded…
1 ticket or tour
Book the Acropolis, whose timed hourly slots sell out days ahead in season, and take 8 am or the last two hours. Boats to Delos stop in strong wind, so buy the crossing from Mykonos a day ahead in summer. Elsewhere you pay at the gate. State sites open about 8 am to 8 pm from April to October and close mid-afternoon in winter, when many tickets are half price; all shut on 1 January, 25 March, 1 May, Orthodox Easter Sunday and 25 and 26 December. Shade is scarce, so April, May and October beat July and August.
Tours and activities in Greece
Ancient-site tours and day trips in Greece
Ancient-site tours in Athens 119Mycenae tours from Athens 24Mycenae tours from Nafplio 23Theatre of Epidaurus tours from Nafplio 18Ancient Corinth tours from Athens 16Theatre of Epidaurus tours from Athens 15Ancient Olympia tours from Athens 14Knossos tours from Rethymno 8Knossos tours from Chania 8
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Ancient sites in Greece: questions
How many ancient sites are there in Greece?
This catalogue lists 34 ruins and ancient sites in Greece, 27 of them with tickets or tours to book online. The most booked are Acropolis of Athens, Knossos, Ancient Olympia.
Which is the oldest ancient site in Greece?
Phaistos, founded in 2000 BC, is the oldest in the catalogue for Greece.
Which ancient sites in Greece are free to enter?
6 of the 34 ancient sites in Greece charge no entry fee, among them Acropolis of Rhodes, Ancient Sparta, Ancient Theatre of Milos. The entry fee is shown on each page.
Which ancient sites in Greece are UNESCO World Heritage Sites?
10 ancient sites in Greece in this catalogue are on the UNESCO World Heritage List, including Acropolis of Athens, Knossos, Ancient Olympia.